Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somebody To Love is over. Marty walks forward and picks a book off of one of the front tables, "The Autobiography of Lenny Bruce." "I just bought a copy this afternoon," he tells the book's owner. He turns to the rhythm guitar player, "Hey, Paul, look at this." Paul says "Yeah, it's a great book...
...Wild Bill Hick-ok jacket, stations himself on the left, behind Grace. Jack, platinum blond page boy and rimless sun-glasses, is on the right. "Why aren't you all at the Be-In?" he asks. "We invite all of you there after the show." Finally Marty steps forward and says "We'd like to do a thing for a Sunday afternoon. It's an old Fillmore song...
...twelve-day-long battle began when a five-man U.S. forward-observer team went up Hill 861 for a look; only one man came back alive. Two Marine platoons that followed were stopped at the base of the hill by heavy fire. With that, Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt pulled out all the stops, ordered two battalions into action. The Army's big 105-mm. and 155-mm. guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped...
This year, hardly anybody outside of Toronto gave the Leafs much chance to make even the playoffs. Coach George ("Punch") Imlach's team was the oldest in the league, held together with stitches, tape and pride. Captain George Armstrong was 36 and quite possibly in his last season; Forward Red Kelly was 39; Defenseman Allan Stanley, 41. Goalie Johnny Bower admitted to 42. And behind him in the nets was Terry Sawchuk, 37, bothered by a chronically bad back and talking about retirement after an illustrious 20-year career that won him four Vezina trophies as hockey...
Half a dozen or so central characters, wearing both the blue and the grey, move forward to the conflict. On the Confederate side, the standouts are General Forrest, a bombastic, semiliterate slave trader who leads a ferocious cavalry charge, and Captain Hamilton LeRoy Acox, a mild Georgian who, though weary of war, wields a mighty sword in a lunatic moment at Fort Pillow...